Iran Ranks 1st for Quality of Scientific Production in ISC 2018

5/26/2018 10:13:48 AM

Saturday, May 26, 2018 - 10:13

The acting head of Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) Mohammad Javad Dehghani has stated that Islamic Republic of Iran ranked first among Islamic countries by gaining over 21% of all received citations.

According to an ISCA report, ISC acting head Dr. Mohammad Javad Dehghani said that the number of Iranian researchers’ most highly cited papers have been increased from 47 in 2008 to 411 in 2017. Therefore, it ranks first in effectiveness and efficiency of scientific production among Islamic countries.

As he explained, the most number of highly cited papers, about 35.6 percent, belonged to the engineering section. Chemistry, physics, agriculture, clinical medicine and mathematics (jointly), have quota in world science production respectively.

Dr. Dehghani noted that researchers from Islamic Republic of Iran have published 1602 highly cited papers so far which been indexed in the ESI database.

Parallel with the policies of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, the Islamic World Science citation Center (ISC) instantly initiated programs to perform its functional activities.